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Travel Blogs from Leganes

Interesting concept: rather then replace or rebuild a ruined building, just work around it and blend the old with the new...

Finally historical Madrid fades away, and the long rows of identical apartment buildings begin... and then, finally, these fade away, and I find myself walking alongside a semi-freeway across the dreary semi-industrial plains surrounding the city.

... for midterms. Time is flying by here, it's kind of scary. but I'm enjoying my time and that is what matters right? Before studying more at home, I talked to my host mom, had a great conversation with her and discussed life. She told me to take a swim, but I worked out instead. Now doing more studying before bed. I'm exhausted still from France, so hopefully I will be fully restored for ...

... in the mirror on the far wall. The young girl is the focus of the composition along with her ladies-in-waiting, and her entourage including a guard, teacher, court entertainers and her dog.

Our guide used the portraits in the gallery to explain to us the relationships of the artists with their royal "subject" and how the depictions could carry many other meaning beyond the obvious scenes on the canvases.

... in from of me said, look, it's the King (yes, THAT King) and when he drapes his white cloth over the royal box in front of him, that signals the horn blower, that signals the fight to move onto the next phase. He's like, I'm over this, let's get things going. Man, how cool would that be. The next thing I knew, we were on the last bull and I was just getting going!

... Leganes will redeem my quest to turn Madrid in to Superhike. Leganes does have a nice park, a couple of interesting statues (like a school of fish in a traffic circle) and a sort of historical looking pedestrian street, but it still has a pretty generic feel to it. Let's see how the next suburb ...